News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEY FULLER, 31, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Ryan Joel Shilling, 27, of Shreveport, was sentenced today for Distribution of Child Pornography. United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Shilling to spend 168 months (14 years) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Shilling was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANNY CASTILLO, 28, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 128 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs, and possessing a short-barrel shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 3 months in jail on his conviction of possession of contraband in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A mother today admitted to a federal court judge that she participated in a drug trafficking conspiracy run by her son while he was incarcerated in the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI). The son, with the mother’s assistance, directed drug dealers to sell crack cocaine to people outside of the prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Timothy Semones, 60, of Ketchum, Idaho, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Semones was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on Feb. 12, 2020, on ten counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Sentencing is set for December 8, 2020, before Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A previously convicted felon pleaded guilty today to a charge related to his possession of an assault rifle, handgun, ballistic vest, and eight magazines of ammunition after leaving the Robert E. Lee Monument during civil unrest on June 12 in Richmond.
By State Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Representatives Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement on the third anniversary of the Burmese military’s violent crackdown on Rohingya:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Dakota Kurtis Means, 20, a resident of Portland, has been charged by criminal information with forcibly assaulting, impeding, and intimidating a federal employee near the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on Aug. 24, 2020, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By State Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Representatives Michael McCaul and Eliot Engel, Republican Leader and Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, along with Senators Jim Risch and Bob Menendez, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the third anniversary of the Burmese military’s violent crackdown on Rohingya...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that SEPEHR SARSHAR was charged this morning with securities fraud...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the North Central Regional Planning Commission, Beloit, Kansas, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 52-year-old pain management physician from Houston has paid $530,000 to resolve allegations he falsely billed Medicare for the use of electro-acupuncture devices, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO- Two men have been charged in federal court with looting three pharmacies in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky.- Jordan Ryan Turner, 32, of Middlesboro, Kentucky, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by United States District Judge Claria Horn Boom, after pleading guilty to using the internet to attempt to persuade, induce, or entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeremy Crinkey, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to having child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A Hanford Site project to stabilize three at-risk underground structures with engineered grout is well underway, with workers starting field preparations this month after successfully testing a full-scale mock-up of the grouting system earlier this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: The defendant illegally retaliated against legitimate IRS action taken to satisfy her company’s outstanding federal tax obligation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Carl Sandburg Home NHS is adding services for visitor information and the park store. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
